Tetracycline hydrochloride

Description: Tetracycline hydrochloride (NCI-c55561) is the hydrochloride salt of the tetracycline, a broad-spectrum naphthacene antibiotic produced semisynthetically from chlortetracycline, an antibiotic isolated from the bacterium Streptomyces aureofaciens. In bacteria, tetracycline blocks binding of aminoacyl-tRNA to the mRNA-ribosome complex, thereby inhibiting protein synthesis and bacterial cell growth. Because naturally, fluorescing tetracycline binds to a newly formed bone at the bone/osteoid interface, tetracycline-labeling of bone and fluorescence microscopy may be used to perform bone histomorphometry. Target: ribosome, Antibiotic, Antibacterial. Smiles: C[C@@]1([C@H]2C[C@H]3[C@@H](C(=C(C(=O)[C@]3(C(=C2C(=O)c2c1cccc2O)O)O)C(=O)N)O)N(C)C)O.Cl. References: Chopra I, et al.Tetracycline antibiotics: mode of action, applications, molecular biology, and epidemiology ofbacterial resistance.Microbiol Mol Biol Rev. 2001 Jun,65(2):232-60